Afghanistan-based militants attack Pak check-posts in Bajaur

KHAR: Pakistani militants operating from Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province attacked the posts of security forces in the Ghakhi Pass in Mamond Tehsil in Bajaur Agency on Tuesday, tribal sources said.
The sources said the militants armed with sophisticated weapons staged the attack. The soldiers manning the posts returned the fire and repulsed the attack, the sources said, adding that no loss of life was reported.
The militants loyal to the fugitive leader of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Maulana Fazlullah, are operating from the eastern Afghanistan, where they have built sanctuaries after being flushed out from the Swat district.
Maulana Fazlullah and his men went into hiding when security forces launched a massive military operation against the militants in Swat to regain the control of the scenic valley and establish the fast-shrinking writ of the government.
He is reported to have been holed up somewhere in eastern Afghanistan near the Pak-Afghan border.
The recent months have seen a rise in the cross-border attacks from the militants hiding in the rugged mountains on the other side of the Durand Line. Though Islamabad has time and again asked Kabul to take action against the militants staging the attacks inside Pakistan, the Afghan government seems least bothered to take on them.